Guideline for Industrial Design in Vietnam
SBLaw would like to provide the guideline for industrial design in Vietnam as follows:
Industrial design registration
SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows:
1. Procedure
 Protection criteria:
A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions:
Being novel
Being of an inventive...
Vietnam Industrial Design Protection
The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam.
Industrial Design Examination Procedure under Vietnam IP Law
In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]
Division of Vietnam Industrial design applications
The applicant may divide,on his/her own initiative or upon the request of the NOIP,his/her application (division and transfer of one or several technical solutions in an invention registration application[...]
Conditions of Industrial Design in Vietnam
1. novel industrial design
- An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.
Protect your industrial design in Vietnam
If you have a industrial design and would like to register it, SBLaw would like to inform you some information about protecting your industrial design in Vietnam for your reference:
Notification of substantive examination results under Vietnam IP Law
On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]
Requirements on industrial design registration applications
Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]
Registration of Industrial Design in Vietnam
If client would like to file an industrial design in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:
Notification of refusal Industrial design application in Vietnam
If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]
Filing the Vietnam Industrial Design Application
Filing the Vietnam Industrial design application is carried out as following:
Refuse to accept the valid Vietnam Industrial design application
The refusal accept the valid application of Vietnam Industrial design registration is realized as follows[...]
PROCEDURE RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PATENTS IN VIETNAM
1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles
Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...
















